Williamson Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Thompson Estate (1967), Commonwealth v. Nelson (1954)
2 district · 67 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Willcox v. Penn Mutual Life Insurance · Orlosky v. Haskell · Demorest v. City Bank Farmers Trust Co. · Crawford Estate · Borsch Estate
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all cases where the same person shall, under a will, fulfill the duties of executor and trustee, it shall not be lawful for such person to receive or charge more than one commission. . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Such acceptance fixed the rights, liabilities, exemptions, defenses and expectations of both life tenant and remaindermen. Their rights were vested under what necessarily is an implied contract. Such rights having vested and appellant having been paid in full, the imposition of additional compensation under a retroactive interpretaion of this statute would be unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans Estate“While as a matter of convenience the compensation of a fiduciary may be arrived at by way of percentage, the true test is always what the services were actually worth and to award a fair and just compensation therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.